This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving. In the grand tradition of Canadians everywhere, I decided to take a road trip to some far off and unsightly place. I was going to go to the states, but that was a little too unslightly.

Instead, Shannon, Evan (and the little baby not yet born) went to visit Mike. Mike’s cool. He’s died many times at my hands in various online games and we’ve been “special” friends, online at least, for the last year or two.

To be honest I have no bloody idea how we met… Maybe through blogging? I can’t think of any other way.

Anyways, Mike’s cool. He works for MySQL. I forgive him for this, since it is his dream job and everything. It makes for great conversation, since my dream job is at Microsoft. He’s the most pro-Microsoft Open Sourcer I’ve ever met… And I’m the most pro-Open Source Microsoft Apologist he’s ever met.

So we get on well.

My family and I drove 12 hours to see them (I Had a 4 day weekend this weekend). Along the way we passed such interesting places as “Balogne”, “What is this place called Valley” (roughly translated from the French) and other such interesting places. No, really, they were interesting. Since we left at 4pm and drove straight through, it was dark nearly the whole way (since the sun sets at 6pm).

Dark was good though. Saskatchewan is fairly flat, fairly straight and fairly unpopulated. Which meant I could go about 100 miles / hour (hehe). Good times.

After a good sleep and all, we met up with Mike and his family. Mike’s very cool. Before meeting him he was just in my “cool” column along with Robert Scoble and the guy who plays Horatio on CSI: Miami. Now he’s over in the Very Cool column along with such luminaries as Shatner and the guy who does impressions of Madonna (with cone bra and everything) at the local cabaret. Not that I’ve ever been there, I just hear from some of my “interesting” friends…

We had a good weekend. I won’t go into too much detail, but we did:

- Find some “Organic Transitional Dairy Products”, which I suppose are dairy products which refuse to conform to standards… Probably because their consumers interpret the dairy products differently and can’t properly consume Organic Strict Dairy Products. Such is the path to Dairy Standards, I suppose.
- Find some “T & A Lettuce”. This is really useful lettuce. This way you can duck out to get your wife some dessert, stop in at the vegetable section, grab some quick T&A and be home before your wife knows anything is amiss. Those Albertans, they’re so practical.
- See the spot where an idiot Indian had a herd of buffalo jump on his head

I’m sure there were other equally interesting things, but I’ll leave it up to Mike to divulge them. He’s probably got more dirt on me now than anyone. Well, maybe not anyone. Anyone who’s never met me anyways.